. The street railway review . Angust loili in which over lOO peoplewere suffocated liy the dense smoke from buniinK railway cars. .\train consisting of eight coaches coming from Iort Dauphin andgoing towards the Place dc la Nati<m stopped at the HoulevardHarlies owing to a slight accident to one of the motors. The trainwas emptied of its passengers, after which another train passengers of the second train also alighted and then the twotrains were coupled together, the second train pushing the dis-abled one along the line toward the workshops. No slops weremade at the stations bu
. The street railway review . Angust loili in which over lOO peoplewere suffocated liy the dense smoke from buniinK railway cars. .\train consisting of eight coaches coming from Iort Dauphin andgoing towards the Place dc la Nati<m stopped at the HoulevardHarlies owing to a slight accident to one of the motors. The trainwas emptied of its passengers, after which another train passengers of the second train also alighted and then the twotrains were coupled together, the second train pushing the dis-abled one along the line toward the workshops. No slops weremade at the stations but as the train reached the station of LesCouronnis the driver slowed down slightly. The station masterat this iK)int warned the driver that Haines were issuing from be-neath the coaches and there would not be time to reach the work-shops, but the train proceeded into the tunnel a short distance whena violent occurred and in a few minutes all of the i6coaches were on fire. The flames soon destroyed the wires in the. ROUTE OF THE METROPOLITAN RAILWAY, PARIS tunnel, leaving it in total darkness. This occurred between llie sta-tions of Lcs Couronnes and Menilniontant, the location of whichwill be seen on the accompanying map. Meanwhile another traincame along behind the burning trains and stopped at Lcs Couronnesjust as the smoke from the tunnel began to enter the station. It wasthen that the catastrophe ha|)pened. The passengers of the lattertrain jumped to the platform and tried to make their way to thestaircase at one end but were driven back by the smoke towardthe other end of the platform, where they met those who had leftthe burning train and later on 75 bodies were found crowded to-gether at this point, .\lthough the accident occurred at eight oclockin the evening, owing to the dense smoke and the heat no attemptsat rescue could be made until early the next morning. The tem-perature in the tunnel rose to over 140° F. It is stated that the re-sponsibility f
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